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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

We're getting ready to start day 3 at Mobile World Congress. I took this picture during a slow time yesterday. Our booth in Hall 6, stand D101, has three conference rooms, lots of good demos, and strong crowds. If you're at MWC, be sure to stop by to see:
- Our new imaging demos - image stabilization and HDR capture
- Our complete LTE downlink demo
- As many audio demos as we could fit (we have so many now with strong partners like Sensory and Acoustic Technologies working in our booth)
- The display case full of the latest Smartphones and tablets that include Tensilica cores.

By utilizing Sensory’s Low Power Speech Detection technology, Tensilica
was able to further reduce power to an average of under 25 µW when
implemented in a 28 nm HPL process, the lowest power implementation by
far in the industry. This makes this joint solution ideal for always-on
voice activated smartphones, tablets, appliances and automotive
applications.See press release.

“For more than four years, we have worked very closely with Tensilica on
a number of projects,” stated Teresa He, vice president of HiSilicon.
“We have found that Tensilica’s DPUs can help us differentiate our
products and achieve competitive advantages in terms of power,
performance, and area. Tensilica cores have operated as expected and
their support has been superb, enabling us to significantly speed up our
development time. We are very pleased to strengthen our relationship
with this agreement.”See press release.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

“By using Tensilica’s LTE ATLAS reference platform, we were able to
dramatically reduce our time to market and product development cost,”
stated Min Liang, SimpLight’s vice president of R&D. “SL3000 is a
multi-mode, multi-core SoC that could support 2G, 3G, 4G and other
customized broadband baseband processing. This multi-core programmable
platform, combined with Tensilica’s powerful vector DSPs and SimpLight’s
proprietary high-performance, multi-threaded microprocessors, is the
best balance between performance and power consumption. Our LTE solution
based on SL3000 is ready for the IoT test organized by China’s MTNET,
the official testing lab in China for mobile wireless communication.”See press release.

“We are very excited to showcase at MWC all of the smartphones and
tablets that are using Tensilica for audio/voice, Bluetooth, WiFi and
LTE baseband processing,” stated Jack Guedj, Tensilica’s president and
CEO. “And with our latest imaging/video DSP (see press release), Tensilica is well positioned to expand our lead as the largest DSP IP supplier.”See press release.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

“The ANT30 represents the second generation of integrated 4G LTE and
2G/3G chips that have used Tensilica’s DPUs and DSPs – the first
generation has been very successful in the Japanese market,” stated Eric
Dewannain, Tensilica’s vice president and general manager of the
baseband business unit. “In this second generation, ANT has
significantly reduced the power dissipation to increase battery life by
employing specifically optimized Tensilica DPU programmable
accelerators, in addition to the versatile ConnX BBE DSP. The ANT modem,
designed to service the worldwide market due to its software
programmability, can quickly adjust to standard evolution or new
requirements.”See press release.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree 3.0 technology enables personalization of the
user experience by calling up a specific user’s history, preferences and
settings. Sensory’s speaker verification technology uses voice
biometrics and analysis to authenticate a specific individual. Sensory’s
TrulyHandsfree complete set of voice activation and recognition
products allow users to access a device with just their voice, bypassing
the typical 4-digit number manually entered on the screen for access. See press release.

The optimized LTE library works with mimoOn’s mi!SmallCellPHY and
mi!MobilePHY reference chains, which are complete solutions for 3GPP
standards, ensuring 100 percent alignment with the standards and
future-proofing investments. The library includes optimized basic
functions such as FFT/IFFT and LTE specific functions such as rate
matching, modulators, interleaving, channel estimation, UE sync and MIMO
equalization. The library is complete in that it supports all of the
core functions of the reference designs.
Tensilica and mimoOn will jointly demonstrate a low-power,
high-performance LTE User Equipment and eNodeB PHY with real-time
downlink and uplink traffic at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2013,
February 25-28, in Tensilica’s booth in Hall 6, stand D101 and in
mimoOn’s meeting room in Hall 2, stand 2D60. See press release.

LifeVibes VoiceExperience is HD Voice compliant, and enables natural,
comfortable communication over phone networks and IP-based channels such
as Skype and Google Talk. It improves the intelligibility of speech,
eliminates echoes and distortion, and minimizes stationary and
non-stationary background noise (such as traffic or crowds), using one
or more microphones. More information is available at http://www.nxpsoftware.com/products/voiceexperience/. See press release.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Tensilica today unveiled IVP - a product that is ideal for the complex image/video signal processing functions in mobile handsets, tablets, digital televisiosn (DTV), automotive, video games and computer vision based applications. The IVP DPU is a much needed breakthrough product in terms of energy efficiency and performance in current products and to enable applications never before possible in a programmable device.

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

“Tensilica’s DPUs allow us to create highly competitive products that
are optimized for our unique flash architectures without compromising
the implementation or requiring us to create, verify and maintain
algorithm-acceleration offload engines to supplement an inflexible
fixed-function control CPU,” said Aw Yong, President at Phison.
“Moreover, Tensilica’s DPUs have special I/Os that speed data in and out
of the processing engine, bypassing the system bus, speeding overall
system performance.” See press release.

Monday, February 04, 2013

With assistance from Tensilica, the
university team integrated an Xtensa LX4 DSP core to demonstrate the overall
power reduction benefits from the combination of a 28nm low power technology,
adaptive power management and an advanced processor IP core.

"Tensilica has had a long-standing relationship with the researchers at TU
Dresden and congratulates them on this successful design effort," stated
Chris Rowen, Tensilca's CTO. "Tensilica's Xtensa processor is a
fundamental building block in TU Dresden's wireless communications
architecture, and we are working together to proliferate know-how on
configurable architectures to the worldwide design community." See press release.